Perspectives on Politics

The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power by Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College The conventional approach to criminal victimization views it as a traumatic but one-time act. Yet, this overlooks a layer of contentious and […]

The Cost of Doing Politics? Analyzing Violence and Harassment against Female Politicians by Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University and Juliana Restrepo Sanin, Josef Korbel School of International Studies The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women will […]

Institutions, Ideologies, and Comparative Political Theory by Joshua Simon, Columbia University Political theorists are often concerned to explain how prominent intellectuals’ ideas relate to the circumstances within which they lived and worked, but there are cases […]

Who Rules the World? A Portrait of the Global Leadership Class by John Gerring, The University of Texas at Austin, Erzen Oncel, Wilson Center and Kevin Morrison, University of Pittsburgh It goes without saying that “leaders rule.” And […]

Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism by Mathias Thaler, University of Edinburgh A common complaint about pacifism says that it is utopian, in a pejorative sense. The worry can take various […]

Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946-2016) by Genevieve Bates, Ipek Cinar, and Monika Nalepa, The University of Chicago Transitional justice—how democracies recovering from authoritarianism or civil war deal with members and […]

The Electoral Politics of Growth Regimes by Peter A. Hall, Harvard University This article explores the role played by electoral politics in the evolution of postwar growth regimes, understood as the economic and social policies used […]

Populism and Backlashes against International Courts by Erik Voeten, Georgetown University Why do some governments start backlashes against international courts whereas others continue to accept or avoid adverse judgments? Existing theories point to rising implementation costs […]